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Provenance of Medieval Atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark, Based on Geological and Palaeontological Investigations Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark, based on geological and palaeontological investigations Nyborg, Ebbe; Surlyk, Finn; Thibault, Nicolas Published in: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark DOI: 10.37570/bgsd-2020-68-02 Publication date: 2020 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Document license: CC BY Citation for published version (APA): Nyborg, E., Surlyk, F., & Thibault, N. (2020). Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark, based on geological and palaeontological investigations. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 68, 15- 21. https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2020-68-02 Download date: 01. okt.. 2021 BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DENMARK · VOL. 68 · 2020 Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark, based on geological and palaeontological investigations EBBE NYBORG, FINN SURLYK & NICOLAS THIBAULT Nyborg, E., Surlyk, F. & Thibault, N. 2020. Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark, based on geological and palaeontological investigations. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, vol. 68, pp. 15–21. ISSN 2245-7070. https://doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-2020-68-02 An atlante is a corbel figure (or pillar support) sculpted in the form of a man carrying Geological Society of Denmark a heavy load. A group of well-preserved stone carved atlantes from c. 1250 carrying https://2dgf.dk the vaults of the Ribe Cathedral in western Jylland, Denmark, represents the antique titan Atlas and are up to 150 cm high. Their obviously foreign origin has so far re- Received 29 November 2019 mained uncertain. The figures are made of a relatively soft, sandy limestone. A new Accepted in revised form nannofossil analysis of small chips of the chalky and sandy limestone narrows the age 12 February 2020 of the stone down to the late Campanian (Late Cretaceous). Upper Campanian sandy Published online 13 March 2020 limestones of this type are exposed in the Münster Basin in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. The Campanian Baumberger Sandstein in this region fits well © 2020 the authors. Re-use of material is with the atlantes in terms of lithology and age and is the only possible provenance permitted, provided this work is cited. of the stone. Around 1250 the Baumberger Sandstein was used for baptismal fonts Creative Commons License CC BY: as far north as Ostfriesland at the Dutch-German border, and it is a novel finding of https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ this investigation that it even reached Denmark. The stone was most likely floated along the rivers Lippe and Rhine and shipped via the Wadden Sea to Ribe. It is a remarkably long transport distance for historic commercial stone transportation in continental northern European art in the High Middle Ages. Keywords: Ribe Cathedral, Medieval sculpture, provenance, late Campanian, coc- coliths, Baumberger Sandstein, Münster Basin. Ebbe Nyborg [[email protected]], National Museum of Denmark, Frederiksholms Kanal 12, DK-1220 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Finn Surlyk [[email protected]] and Nicolas Thibault [[email protected]], Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Corresponding author: Finn Surlyk Medieval Denmark was particularly short in easily or arms. The figures in the Ribe cathedral comprise a workable stone for the building of churches and cast- group of five up to life-sized atlantes, illustrating the les. The Ribe Cathedral, situated on the North Sea classical myths of the titan Atlas who was doomed to coast of Jylland, was thus built mainly of volcanic tufa hold up the celestial heavens eternally. The atlantes are which was floated from quarries near Cologne (Köln) shown in Figs 2–4; they are not easily accessible and in the Rhineland down the river Rhine and shipped only approximate sizes can be given. Most splendid along the North Sea coast (Fig. 1). However, this rock is a flower-garlanded young man trampling an old type was too porous for making any monumental and bearded man underfoot – evidently a personification artistic sculpture. Consequently, another imported of Youth (Juventus) vanquishing Old Age (Fig. 4). An- stone was used for the decorative corbel figures to other figure is a stout giant standing on a dragon (Fig. carry the weight of new vaults in the cathedral con- 2), while a third is a crouching man who once sported structed by the middle of the 13th century. An atlante is a prominent male member which was amputated for a corbel figure (or pillar support) sculpted in the form propriety’s sake during refurbishment in 1865 (Fig. 3). of a man carrying a heavy load on his head, shoulders Art history has long been aware that the sculptures Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark · 15 had a foreign origin (Helms 1870), but until now it has In 2017 a new sample was taken, this time from only been observed that similar but smaller sculptures the giant behind its dragon, to be investigated in carry the central vault in the castle chapel at Kobern more detail. A calcareous nannofossil analysis was south of Cologne (Nyborg in press). This paper pre- conducted on the new sample. A smear-slide was sents an identification of the origin of the carving prepared following the procedure described in stone of the atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral. Thibault & Gardin (2006). As our results indicate a Late Cretaceous deposit, a recent standard Boreal nannofossil scheme focusing on the Campanian to lower Maastrichtian is presented along with other Biostratigraphic analysis stratigraphic markers for that time interval (Fig. 5). The atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral all have the In 1979 a geological identification of the sculpture same lithological composition and the new sample stone was attempted by us, and we found that the consists of a light-coloured chalky and sandy lime- material was a relatively soft chalky and sandy lime- stone of a type well known from the Münster Basin stone belonging to the last part of the Cretaceous, the in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany (Fig. late Campanian – early Maastrichtian. Deposits of this 1). A precise age for the Ribe sample was provided by age have been accessible in the Paris Basin, around the analysis of the calcareous nannofossil assemblage Hannover in northern Germany, in Denmark, Belgium in the carbonate matrix. Calcareous nannofossils are and at Maastricht in The Netherlands, but they mainly the remains of calcifying phytoplanktonic organ- consist of pure chalk. isms which are particularly abundant in Cretaceous North A Ribe B North Durham Sea Sea Ostfries- -land Wadden sea Münster basin Hannover Maastricht Köln Hannover Mainz Reims Caen Strasbourg Sens Maastricht Westphalia Nevers region C Cretaceous deposits of the Münster basin Outcropping or immediately below Quaternary deposits Underground Fig. 1. A: Map showing the location of Ribe and relevant German locations cited in the text along the Rhine and Lippe rivers. B: Early Campanian palaeogeographic map of the western Peri-Tethys area with location of the Münster Basin and relevant French and German towns mentioned in the text. After Philip & Floquet (2000). C: Map showing the distribution of Cretaceous sediments in the Münster Basin, compiled by Geologische Dienst Nordrhein-Westfalen, https://www.gd.nrw.de/ge_ev_stratigraphie.htm 16 · Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark marine carbonates. Their rapid evolution makes them an excellent group for relative dating. The assemblage of the Ribe sample is well-preserved, with abundant nannofossils (Fig. 6). The presence of Tranolithus orionatus, Zeugrhabdotus bicrescenticus, Broinsonia parca parca and B. parca constricta together with the absence of Eiffelithus eximius and Orastrum campanensis may constrain the assemblage to nan- nofossil zone UC16 (Burnett 1998). Zeugrhabdotus praesigmoides (syn. T. stemmerikii Thibault 2010) is common, which further constrains our sample to the upper Campanian below the top of subzone UC16S2 where this taxon gets extinct (Fig. 5; Boussaha et al. 2016; Thibault 2016a). Watznaueria barnesiae and W. cf. W. manivitae are common forms of the assemblage, and this feature is typical of the late Campanian warm optimum that took place across subzones UC15eBP to UC16S3, these species becoming much rarer in the early Maastrichtian. We also note abun- Fig. 3. Atlante from the Ribe Cathedral. Young man crouching. Originally he sported a prominentFigure male 3 member until it was removed in 1865. Atlante is about 1.5 m high. Photo: Folmer Iversen. Fig. 2. Atlante from the Ribe Cathedral. A giant standing on the back of a dragon. The sculpture is about 1.5 m high. The sample Fig. 4. Atlante from the Ribe Cathedral. Flower-garlanded investigated for calcareousFigure nannofossils 2 was taken in 2017 from young man trampling an old man underfoot. This atlante is the hidden back side of the dragon. Photo: Folmer Iversen. 50–75 cm high. Photo: FigureFolmer Iversen. 4 Provenance of Medieval atlantes in the Ribe Cathedral, Denmark · 17 dant Reinhardtites anthophorus. Hence, our sediments subzone (Fig. 5). The presence of common R. levis and cannot be younger than UC16S2, the last consistent Lucianorhabdus spp., both of which compose a signifi- occurrence of R. anthophorus being within this latter cant part of the assemblage, is another feature that Traditional NW Germany Boreal UC macrofossil Belemnite Brachiopod macrofossil nannofossil Calcareous zones zones (UK) zones zones nannofossil Mortimore zones BP (Belemnites) NW Europe Schulz (1978, 1979) UC : Burnett (1998) et al. (2001) Surlyk (1984) biohorizons Ma Christensen (1988) & Schönfeld S: Boussaha et al. Magnetochrons 68 Age et al. (1996) (2016) tenuicostata- 7 not semiglobularis cimbrica 69 S2 Belemnella exposed pulchellus-tenuicostata 6 UC19 C. obscurus S1 R. levis Z. bicrescenticus, 70 upper lower occidentalis in B. sumensis 5 UC18 P. mgayae UK pulchellus-pulchellus UC17 T.
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